cgi / javascrip / perl / innerHTML quoting confusion

[seven.reeds]

Hi,

I am not a js expert by any stretch and this might be a perl question
more than js but I have to start somewhere so fingers crossed...

Ok, I am doing some ajax and have this '<input type='file"' input that
I am working on. It is accepting image files. When its value changes
I want to display the image in an associated DIV. I am building the
html and js lines in a perl script. THe relevant section looks like:

$HTML .= <<EOF;
<p><label for="IThumbnail">Path to Thumbnail</label>
<input type="file" name="IThumbnail" id="IThumbnail"
size=50
accept="image/gif,image/jpeg"
onchange="
document.getElementById('IThumbnailImageDiv').inne rHTML
=
'<img src="file://' +
document.getElementById('IThumbnail').value +
'" alt="upload file" />'; return false; " /></p>

<div id="IThumbnailImageDiv"
style="float:left;
clear:both;">
</div>
EOF

I'm testing this with FireFox and have the js Console open. It tells
me that there are mis-matching quotes starting at: '<img

I have tried quoting the double qyotes inside the IMG tag I am building
with "\" and "\\" but neither works. This has to be a simple mistake
but I am not seeing it.

help?

[Randy Webb]

seven.reeds said the following on 6/20/2006 3:45 PM:

Hi,

I am not a js expert by any stretch and this might be a perl question
more than js but I have to start somewhere so fingers crossed...

Ok, I am doing some ajax and have this '<input type='file"' input that
I am working on. It is accepting image files. When its value changes
I want to display the image in an associated DIV.

Your script error aside, you won't be able to do what you are trying to
do anymore. It has been decided that showing an image from the client
file system on a web-based page is a security violation so you can't do it.

--
Randy
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[seven.reeds]

> Your script error aside, you won't be able to do what you are trying to

do anymore. It has been decided that showing an image from the client
file system on a web-based page is a security violation so you can't do it.

Thanks Rand,

it figures. sigh

all the best